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Denville Life • September 2018 • Page 33
Voltaire Cycles Provides Additional Options In Bike Riding To Improve The Adventure
By Stefanie Sears lectric bikes, originally from Europe, are the latest product that helps enhance the biking experience, says Chris Caiazzo, Voltaire Cycles owner. Voltaire Cycles is a bicycle and service shop franchise located in Denville since December 2017. Caiazzo, an avid bike rider, got involved with this franchise after a personal incident one time in Maine. “I got to an age where I could no longer ride my traditional bike the way I wanted to,” Caiazzo explains, “I couldn’t keep up with my friends, I had four knee operations, a back operation, and my physicality has declined a little bit. I was looking for an alternative. I was up in Maine going up Cadillac Mountain with a couple of friends and halfway up I had to bail because I could not keep up. I went back to the bottom of the hill and they had an e-bikes store that rented electric bikes. So I rented one and within five minutes of riding I had an epiphany. I was able to ride back up the
mountain using my own physicality and the assist that the bike provided. I became such a huge advocate.” When he returned to New Jersey, he looked around for electric bikes, also known as e-bikes, and found that the pickings were slim. He found Electric Spokes in Verona and bought an e-bike each for he and his wife Cynthia. Electric Spokes then called him, offering the opportunity to franchise, and Caiazzo, who also works in medical insurance and vapor retail, expressed his interest. “Our main thrust is getting people back into being active again, especially those people who have been staring at their bicycles in their garage for the last 20 years and getting them enthusiastic about using their bikes to do errands, shopping, to get some exercise, to integrate with other people, socialize,” he says. “Just to be involved again, and certainly to take away the anxiety of riding a traditional bike and finding that halfway through your ride you have to call an Uber back to your house.”
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